Vessel YC Application

Winter 2022Inactive

Vessel went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2022 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Winter 2022
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 5
Status: Inactive
Launched: 2022

Founders

Avery YipFounder
Zachary KirbyFounder

What Vessel does

Vessel is the developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools. We make it easy for developers to integrate with your customer’s CRMs, Sales Engagement, Marketing Automation, Chat, Dialers, and more. Integrate in different ways customized for your use cases: - Speed: Use our Unified APIs to roll out many integrations quickly through a common data model and unified interface. - Depth: Use our actions API to build deeper integrations when working with entities custom to each app. - Ease: Use ETL to let us handle pulling and pushing customer data to your DB - Extensible: Support any integrations through our open-source integrations library Breadth and depth, make your integrations limitless.

Vessel's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Vessel, Winter 2022 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Vessel

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We're building a native integration platform aimed at developers working with GTM tools like CRMs, sales engagement, marketing automation, and dialers. Vessel lets developers roll out many integrations quickly using unified APIs, build deeper custom actions with an actions API, handle ETL between customer data and databases, and extend capabilities through an open-source integrations library. Our platform combines breadth across many apps with depth for custom use cases, reducing integration complexity for engineering teams.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live mainly in San Francisco, CA, and the company is based there with a remote-friendly setup.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We're in San Francisco because it's where we're located and where much of our network and potential users are. We support remote team members but keep SF as our core base to stay close to the market and engineering talent.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Vessel YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Vessel's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Vessel would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.